Editing Paramount Records (section)

==Depression, closure, reissues==
The [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]] drove many record companies out of business. Paramount stopped recording in 1932 and closed in 1935.

Like other record companies during the Great Depression, Paramount sold most of its master recordings as scrap metal. Some of the company's recordings were said to have been thrown into the [[Milwaukee River]] by disgruntled employees when the company was closing in the mid-1930s.<ref>[[Amanda Petrusich|Petrusich, Amanda]]. ''Do Not Sell At Any Price''. Scribner, 2014, p. 78.</ref> A 2006 episode of the PBS television show ''[[History Detectives]]'' showed divers searching the river for Paramount masters and unsold 78s, but they were unsuccessful.<ref name="PBS Investigates">{{cite web|last1=Sussman|first1=Lawrence|title=PBS Investigates Grafton Legend|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vZYxAAAAIBAJ&pg=6405%2C6317264|website=Google/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|date=9 June 2006}}</ref> Author [[Amanda Petrusich]] also dived in the river looking for records for her 2014 book ''[[Do Not Sell At Any Price]]'', but did not find any.<ref>Petrusich, pg. 111.</ref>

When Riverside re-released the original recordings, they used records from the collection of [[John Hammond (producer)|John Hammond]].<ref name="Keepnews Dies">{{cite web|last1=Chinen|first1=Nate|title=Orrin Keepnews, Record Executive and Producer of Jazz Classics, Dies at 91|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/arts/music/orrin-keepnews-jazz-producer-and-record-executive-is-dead-at-91.html?_r=0|website=The New York Times|date=1 March 2015|access-date=28 February 2017|archive-date=18 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818215725/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/arts/music/orrin-keepnews-jazz-producer-and-record-executive-is-dead-at-91.html?_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref>

John Fahey's [[Revenant Records]] and [[Jack White]]'s [[Third Man Records]] issued two volumes of remastered tracks from Paramount's catalog, ''The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume One (1917–27)'' and ''The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume Two (1928–32)'', on vinyl records with a [[USB]] drive for digital access.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://exclaim.ca/News/third_man_chronicles_paramount_records_with_massive_box_set_housed_in_wonder-cabinet |title=Jack White's Third Man Chronicles Paramount Records with Massive Box Set Housed in "Wonder-Cabinet" |last1=Hudson |first1=Alex |date=September 24, 2013 |publisher=Exclaim.ca |access-date=October 30, 2013 |archive-date=September 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926205442/http://exclaim.ca/News/third_man_chronicles_paramount_records_with_massive_box_set_housed_in_wonder-cabinet |url-status=live }}</ref> Each volume features 800 songs, contemporary ads and images (200 in volume one and 90 in volume 2), two books (a history of Paramount and a guide to the artists and recordings) and six 180-gram vinyl LPs, packaged in a hand-crafted oak case modeled after those that carried phonographs in the 1920s.<ref>{{cite web |last=Blistein |first=Jon |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jack-whites-third-man-records-to-co-release-paramount-records-set-20130924#ixzz37U3n0SYP |title=Jack White's Third Man Records to Co-Release Paramount Records Set |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=2013-09-24 |access-date=2015-03-12 |archive-date=2015-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223015145/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jack-whites-third-man-records-to-co-release-paramount-records-set-20130924#ixzz37U3n0SYP |url-status=live }}</ref>